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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tom McIlroy

Labor and the Coalition must force Pauline Hanson to ‘please explain’ her policies if they are to win back voters

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson speaks to the media during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra
‘Many voters want to give the middle finger to the political system, and see their anger mirrored in Pauline Hanson’s singular brand of politics,’ Tom McIlroy writes. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Angus Taylor was in Perth on Friday, demonstrating fairly competently why voters are abandoning the Liberals and Nationals for One Nation.

In a week when Newspoll put Pauline Hanson’s party ahead of the Coalition and Labor for the first time, on Friday the opposition leader was unable to name a single seat in electorally sensitive Western Australia.

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